There are three basic patterns of fingerprints known as arches, loops and whorls that form in response to the different directions of stress caused by shrinking of the volar pads. Other research on ...

A single ancient fingerprint, pressed into sticky pine pitch more than two millennia ago, is reshaping what archaeologists ...

The study was conducted by a team of international scientists comprising those from Shanghai, Australia, UK, USA, and India Chandana Basu, scientist from Centre for Genetic Disorders, Institute of ...

Fingerprints are among the most distinctive features of human biology, serving as enduring identifiers for individuals and as windows into genetic and developmental processes. The three major ...

A study, recently published in one of the most prestigious scientific journals of Science -CELL, has found that fingerprint patterns in humans are determined by the limb development genes. The study ...

A Banaras Hindu University (BHU) scientist, Dr Chandana, is one of the scientists who have found that fingerprint patterns in humans are determined by limb development genes. The study was conducted ...

The patterns of skin on your feet are as unique as your fingerprint, and now forensic experts in Japan want to use feet as a new way to identify bodies Former members of Tokyo's metropolitan police ...

Patterns in nature can be seen every day, yet in many cases, little is understood about how and why they form. Now University of Arizona mathematicians have found a way to predict natural patterns, ...